Audio Xtract Pro

List Price: $49.99 Discount Price: $9.99

Features:

• Search the Internet for hundreds of online stations -- then record them directly to your PC memory
• Powerful recording tools let you capture audio from up to 8 stations at once
• Automatically deletes duplicate songs to save hard drive space
• Record music or talk from the Internet directly to your hard drive -- and add key information like song sname & title, for easier organization
• Rip, edit and convert your files with splits and fades, and convert freely between WMA, MP3 and WAV formats

Customer Reviews:

Best Music...just got better. Free internet songs [Posted on 2004-12-04]
The other day I upgraded to this TOP NOTCH product. Everyone who loves music needs to get it from Internet Radio. Free. High quality tunes. Easy to use. Never-ending supply of songs out there.
My wife and daughter have burned many personal CD's for listening at home, the car or school. Wow, what a great idea.

This is even better than the original! [Posted on 2004-12-08]
Let me tell you, this has to be one of the coolest products ever on the market. Record 8 internet radio stations at once, then use the additional sound editors to trim them down to your own liking. Very easy to use, and once you have a pile of songs, pick out the ones you want and start burning cds. A great way to collect music and the best part of all is you don't have to pay some lame fee like with iTunes or MusicMatch.

Songs blend together and files are truncated [Posted on 2005-02-27]
The Audio Xtract program does exactly what it says it does, but there is a fundamental problem that everyone should be aware of. First, just like on commercial over-the-air radio, the music streams available usually 'blend' together such that one song fades out while the next fades in. This means that your recorded files will seldom have a clean start and beginning. Sometimes, there is even DJ banter that gets captured. The next problem is that the algorithm used to calculate when one song ends and the next starts appears to be imprecise. I've recorded songs that were off by as much as 10 seconds from where they should have started (and ended up having to combine them with adjacent files and re-split them manually). If you're looking for a good way to get radio-ized music, there is no better software than this. However, if you want clean songs with intact lead-ins and endings, you will seldom get that with this product. Sorry!

Try before you buy [Posted on 2005-06-03]
The testimonials scattered around the internet encouraged me to buy this product. After experiencing the product and having an unsatisfying interchange with their customer service, I am fairly sure that most of the testimonials are plants.

Some recommendations:

1) The product only works with ShoutCast. To see if these are the stations you would like to record, first go to the shoutcast web site.
2) Before purchasing, it is highly recommended that you download the free trial from the audioxtract web site to see if the product will work for you.
3) Do read through the FAQs on the same web site.
4) Know that you will need DSL or cable to use the product as it is advertised.
5) Also know that if you are as dis-satisfied as I am, you will be able to experience the wonderful efficiency with which Amazon.com handles returns.

Make sure you register..... [Posted on 2005-12-22]
After forking over 50 for this garbage, installing and then not using for a while, I was prompted for an ID and pass code. WTF?! I did not spend my cash so I could monkey around with this, especially after tossing everything else..Ahhh, the utter nerve and greed of these companies.

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